CityCyclingEdinburgh was launched on the 27th of October 2009 as "an experiment".
IT’S TRUE!
CCE is 15years old!
Well done to ALL posters
It soon became useful and entertaining. There are regular posters, people who add useful info occasionally and plenty more who drop by to watch. That's fine. If you want to add news/comments it's easy to register and become a member.
RULES No personal insults. No swearing.
Must stop copying the Pros
Must stop copying the Pros
Must stop copying the Pros
Every commute this week I've found myself at some point doing that 'resting your forearms on the bars' thing that you see the pros doing (even at the head of the peleton on the pouring rain yesterday!).
Next I'll be throwing bottles away when empty; peeing on the move; and buying a new wheel and tyre when I get a puncture...
Must stop swerving to avoid trees.
Lol, try bouncing off a car and throwing yourself into a barbed wire fence, apparently it helps you to hillclimb better ;-)
"throwing yourself into a barbed wire fence"
Have you seen the photo (3 - not pretty) -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery/2011/jul/11/tourde-france-2011-crashes
"Next I'll be throwing bottles away when empty"
Pfft, amateur. I'll be throwing my bottles away having taken only one sip.
I'll also be stuffing newspaper down my front before descending from the south to the north of the city. But not before reading it while on the move
Careful Min, remember -
"And what was the principal offending item? Plastic bottles and empty cans of Lucozade, Gatorade and other blood-sugar-boosting products were lodged high in hedgerows at cyclist level. Forgive me, but pedestrians were not the culprits here."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article3097464.ece
He had to apologise (sort of) -
"I offended many with my Christmas attack on cyclists. It was meant humorously but so many cyclists have taken it seriously that I plainly misjudged. I am sorry."
I hung onto the side of a car to receive instructions this morning...
You probably need to work on your final-approach-sprint grimace, too. Some of the really good ones look like Colonel Dietrich as the Ark melts his face at the end of Raiders.
Anth "peeing on the move" only counts if you can hit some Frenchman's soup.
I could have done with a support car with spare wheel today as I had a visitation from the fairy in the middle of the Innocent Tunnel.
That's what we need to make Edinburgh a distinctive and "world class" cycling city, Fit all council vans with a roof rack full of spare wheels and whenever they see a cyclist who's been visited by the fairy they stop and swap wheels, you could even have a "hotline" to report your predicament... ;-)
Joking aside, at least it was warm and dry and i hope it was an easy fix.
TBH it was quite enjoyable. The source was eaily found (brown glass). Lots of cyclists slowed to ask if I needed help, including one who advised the use of Slime.
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